Okay, an antecedent of a pronoun is always a noun, so immediately you can reject the words late and wandered as incorrect answers, because late is an adjective, and wandered is a verb. This leaves us with two nouns, guests and party. Obviously, the pronoun several refers to the noun guests, so the correct answer is guests - that is the antecedent that corresponds with the pronoun. Several guests, not several parties.
"The man who was almost a man" speaks of Dave, who had conflicts with gaining recognition and respect, because he was young. He wanted to grow up and become a man. For this he bought a weapon, thinking that it would make him grow as a man. Seeking power, he buys this weapon, to feel powerful, unstoppable. All these conflicts of the dave age led him to make some bad decisions. The story well specifies this when he accidentally shoots a mule, and he cannot sustain the excuse he made up for it, and when he decides to take a train and go to a city where he would be able to man up.
Its a compound sentence because they are two independent clauses being joined together by a comma. they can also be joined together by a semicolon or conjunction
Based on the given sentence above, the appositive phrase here is the "triplet sisters". When we say appositive, this is a word or phrase that renames the subject that follows it. In this case, this appositive renames <span>"Laura, Lisa, and Lynn". Hope this answers your question.</span>
